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Month: October 2019


Using lightdm + slick greeter

By: | Post date: October 23, 2019 | Comments: No Comments

Posted in categories: Computer Tips, Work related

Linux default greeters list user names on log in screen. This is sort of a security risk. Using lightdm + slick greeter can avoid this, rendering it back to the key-in username type. To do so, dnf install lightdm slick-greeter systemctl stop gdm (or whatever dm you are using) systemctl disable gdm edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm,conf, change […]

Using MESA to render OpenGL > 1.4 remotely

By: | Post date: October 23, 2019 | Comments: No Comments

Posted in categories: Computer Tips, Work related

When you are working on a remote server through nomachine or vnc, and there is no video card on the remote server that supports OpenGL > 1.4, the MESA in default render OpenGL version 1.4. This will cause the application to fail even if they do not really need to raise a GUI. Here is […]

Using Nomachine through ssh tunner

By: | Post date: October 14, 2019 | Comments: No Comments

Posted in categories: Computer Tips, Work related

Nomachine uses port 4000, however, the server may not have that port opened to your local IP. However, as long as you can ssh the server, you can use the following ssh tunnel to use Nomachine – securely and fast: From a ssh client, do: ssh -L <port>:localhost:4000 -N -f <username>@<nomachine_server> From your nomachine client, […]